Careful with that axe, Howard Dean.

Man, things just keep getting better and better.

You know you’re off to a good day when you see these headlines, side-by-side, in your local paper...

Pink Floyd reunites for Live 8

Published June 13, 2005

LONDON -- Pink Floyd's classic lineup will play at July's London Live 8 concert, band members' first performance together in more than 20 years, event organizers said Sunday.

Guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason, bassist Roger Waters and keyboard player Richard Wright have not performed on stage together since Waters split after a band spat in the 1980s.

"Any squabbles Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if reforming for this concert will help focus attention then it's going to be worthwhile," Gilmour said.

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So as I’m rambling along, humming the all-too-appropriate…

Hey you, Whitehouse,

Ha ha charade you are.

You house proud town mouse,

Ha ha charade you are

You're trying to keep our feelings off the street.

You're nearly a real treat,

All tight lips and cold feet

And do you feel abused?

And this, which still gets my vote hands-down for the perfect Moderate GOP Anthem...

What do you get for pretending the danger's not real?

Meek and obedient you follow the leader

Down well trodden corridors into the valley of steel.

What a surprise!

A look of terminal shock in your eyes.

Now things are really what they seem.

No, this is no bad dream.

When what do I see a couple or columns over but this…

Dean blasts GOP over voting rights

Support for 1965 law must be first step to court blacks, he says

By Brendan McCarthy and Jeff Zeleny

Tribune staff reporters

Published June 13, 2005

Until President Bush and top Republicans reaffirm their support for the Voting Rights Act, they should stop courting black voters and showing up in black churches, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Sunday.

Dean, speaking in Chicago at a Rainbow/PUSH Coalition conference, also labeled the Fox News Channel a propaganda machine and sharply criticized the Republican Party, which he said has yet to support reauthorizing certain provisions of the Voting Rights Act that expire in 2007.

"I think it's hypocritical for the Republicans to pretend to reach out to the African-American community unless they say they are going to reauthorize what gave the African-American community political power," Dean said in an interview. "I'd love to have the president say whether he's going to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act."

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Dean said Republicans should not "pretend" to be genuinely interested in courting African-Americans until the party makes a clear statement on the Voting Rights Act.

"The chairman of the Republican Party, as you know, has made a big deal about attracting African-American voters," Dean said to people attending the conference. "And this is a litmus test. If you aren't going to support the extension of the Voting Rights Act, I don't know what right you have to go to a black church and show your face."

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Cheney called Dean "over the top" and "not the kind of individual you want to have representing your political party," according to the Associated Press.

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Tracey Schmitt , spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, said Sunday that anger should not be an agenda.

"Howard Dean can attack Republicans till he is blue in the face," Schmitt said in a telephone interview. "But we remain committed to growing and expanding the Republican Party. He can focus on throwing mud and making headlines, and we will continue to focus on making inroads in minority communities."

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When a thoroughly vile thug like Cheney – who cranked up the fear-meter to a rolling boil and then warned the nation he had frightened that to vote for Kerry was to risk having terrorists murder you and your children – calls you “over the top”, you know you’re doing something right.

After five years of fake terror alerts, calling critics “traitors”, scaring the living hell out of people to win elections, ever more tax cuts for billionaires when you are already billions in debt, the memorable Swift Boat Social Security “Granny’s a Fag Loving/Troop Hating Whore” Liars ad campaign, lies-lies-and-more-lies about Iraq, Terry Schiavo and an all-out War on the Judiciary climaxing with thinly veiled threats and and calling non-Christopath Judges worse that terrorists (Insert you own list of Top 20 List of Republican Treacheries here)…then some dizzy bitch speaking for the RNC actually says that, “anger is not an agenda” and her pin-head doesn’t implode in cloud of pink cloud of meat, bone and hypocrisy…you have to fall down laughing AND you know you’re doing something right.

(Although I’m forced to agree to this extent: Anger is not the WHOLE Republican agenda. There’s also xenophobia, paranoia, whining victim mentality, criminal fiscal irresponsibility, hatred of Science, “magical thinking” and a worship of Ignorance all wired together with cancerous cult ideology founded on a debased and perverted view of Christianity. So they've got that goin' for them.)

Pink Floyd and Howard Dean, both before my first cuppa coffee, so you know its going to be a righteous day.

And to be crystal clear, when Dean tells the Christopath GOP, "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces!"...

...Howard Dean speaks for me.